I have published the app on the App Store along with its corresponding app clip, my app clip is configured with some advanced experiences for each one of my clients, but whenever some users try to scan an NFC or QR Code they see the card rendering correctly with their configured banner image, but with the message "App Clip Unavailable".
The weird thing is that both iMessage and the website to which the associated domain is set and the apple-app-site-association is stored, renders the banner or card correctly, and when the users tap the banner or card they open the advanced app clip experience correctly without any issue.
I have attempted to troubleshoot the issue by checking the following:
if the app clip is below 15MB
if we are using a second level domain in my associated domain both for my app clip and app (excluding the www subdomain).
checking if the AASA is correctly stored inside .well-known directory
checking the configuration for the advanced experience
I opened a case: 102233443873, and added a bunch of videos and screenshot showcasing the issue, but I have not yet received a reply
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We encountered an issue with iOS 26 and release version. We developed a voipout application and we created an entry in native call log on dev/prod version with our app that run under iOS 18.6 and earlier. On iOS 26 TestFlight version didn't create entry in call log but debug version did it.
I don't find any clue in CallKit documentation for iOS 26 and we use action.fulfill(withDateStarted: .now) for call and end transaction and we develop under Xcode 26
Do you have any suggestion to solve our problems ?
Hello,
I have an app that emulates an NFC card using NFC HCE.
Since yesterday I saw an increasing number of crashes on iOS 26 only, which wasn't there before.
From what I can see, it seems the app crashes when the NFC presentment intent is shown and 60 seconds passed and user does nothing. The app just crashes after 60 seconds.
On previous iOS versions, I know that CardSession.Error.maxSessionDurationReached was thrown after 60 seconds.
Is something changed in iOS 26?
Is the API of Live Caller ID Lookup not open to ordinary developers? How can I get the development permission of Live Caller ID Lookup?
Has anyone had success attempting to place a PKCanvasView in front of an image / UIImageView ?Setting the canvas backgroundColor to clear appears to work correctly, however when finger/pencil touches down the background of the PKCanvasView reverts to black 100% alpha.ThanksBen
Hello,I try to get all contacts from an iCoud Account...First I run:< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
< d:propfind xmlns:d="DAV: ">
< d:prop >
< d:current-user-principal/ >
< /d:prop >
< /d:propfind >Then I get /xxxxxxxxxxx/carddavhome/ and run:< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? >
< d:propfind xmlns:d="DAV:" xmlns:card="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:carddav" >
< d:prop >
< card:addressbook-home-set/ >
< /d:prop >
< /d:propfind >This give me the URL https://pXX-contacts.icloud.com:443/xxxxxxxxxxx/carddavhome/ then I send the following request to this URL:< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? >
< d:propfind xmlns:d="DAV:" xmlns:card="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:carddav" >
< d:prop >
< d:displayname/ >
< d:resourcetype/ >
< /d:prop >
< /d:propfind >And I get:< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? >
< multistatus xmlns="DAV:" >
< response >
< href >/xxxxxxxxxxx/carddavhome/< /href >
< propstat >
< prop >
< resourcetype >
< collection/ >
< /resourcetype >
< /prop >
< status >HTTP/1.1 200 OK< /status >
< /propstat >
< propstat >
< prop >
< displayname/ >
< /prop >
< status >HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found< /status >
< /propstat >
< /response >
< /multistatus >If I try to run this to the the URL https://pXX-contacts.icloud.com:443/xxxxxxxxxxx/carddavhome/contacts< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? >
< card:addressbook-query xmlns:d="DAV:" xmlns:card="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:carddav" >
< d:prop >
< d:getetag/ >
< card:address-data/ >
< /d:prop >
< /card:addressbook-query >I get: Improperly formed XML encountered, unexpected root nodeWhat is my mistake? The first 2 queries work and give me the expected results, the 3rd one should give me a list of the addressbooks and groups and the 4th one should give me all VCards.
I'm implementing an iPhone app which is requiring for best user experience that two phones are placed one next to another. When this happens the NameDrop function starts and interferes with the app behaviour.
There doesn't seem to be any public foundation libraries to allow this. I know there is a support for turning off the functionality in the phone Settings, but this is not desired as I don't want the users to loose this nice iOS feature.
Is it possible to temporary disable the NameDrop while the app is opened?
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
General
The alarms that I am scheduling using alarmKit is not reliable at all, especially in beta 8 (Used to have this issue in previous betas, But they were inconsistent).
The alarm fires anywhere after 5 mins to 45 mins from the actual scheduled time.
I'll share the relevant code block here in case if it is me who is doing something wrong.
This code block doesn't throw any errors and I am also able to see the scheduled alarms when I query them. The issue is with alarms not firing on the specified time
let alert = AlarmPresentation.Alert(
title: "Wakey Wakey!",
stopButton: .init(text: "stop", textColor: .red, systemImageName: "stop.fill")
)
let presentation = AlarmPresentation(alert: alert)
let attributes = AlarmAttributes<CountDownAttribute>(
presentation: presentation,
metadata: .init(),
tintColor: .orange
)
let schedule = Alarm.Schedule.fixed(alarmTime)
let config = AlarmManager.AlarmConfiguration(
schedule: schedule,
attributes: attributes
)
let id = UUID()
do {
let alarm = try await AlarmManager.shared.schedule(id: id, configuration: config)
print("Alarm set successfully for \(alarmTime) - \(alarm)")
} catch {
print("Failed to schedule alarm: \(error)")
}
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
General
When we compile our app using Xcode 26 and run it on iOS 26, we encounter a strange crash where the crashing thread shows no stack trace. After inspecting the registers, we have initially traced it to the Google Mobile Ads SDK. When we disable the initialization of the Google Mobile Ads SDK, the app no longer crashes.
However, running the Google Mobile Ads SDK demo app on iOS 26 alone does not cause any issues; the crash only occurs once it is integrated into our app. We also tried enabling Address Sanitizer and Zombie Objects but found no valuable clues.
Could you advise what other methods or tools we can use to further diagnose this issue? Additionally, when we compile the app with Xcode 15 and run it on iOS 26, everything works fine without crashes.
app-2025-09-19-161044.ips.txt
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
General
I'm seeking help troubleshooting a persistent com.apple.IdentityLookup.error.messagefilter Code=3 error when my Message Filter Extension tries to defer to network. I’ve exhausted Apple documentation and forum posts, and Apple Support has asked me to escalate this via the forums to reach engineering.
✅ My Setup:
Xcode: 16.2
macOS: Sequoia 15.3.1 (Apple Silicon Mac mini)
Device: iPhone 14 Pro
iOS: 18.3.2 (Developer Mode enabled)
Tested via: TestFlight install on real device
📦 App Structure:
Main App Target (minimal "hello world" logic)
Message Filter Extension Target
Messages Extension Target
Message Reporting Extension Target
Notifications Extension Target
✅ Capabilities & Configurations
Main App Capabilities:
App Groups: group.com.example.shared
Network Extensions: Content Filter
Associated Domains:
messagefilter:my-api.example.com
applinks:my-api.example.com
Message Filter Capabilities:
App Groups: same as main app
Network Extensions: Content Filter
Associated Domains: same as above
📄 Info.plist Config
Main App Info.plist:
NSAppTransportSecurity with:
NSAllowsArbitraryLoads = YES
Exception domain my-api.example.com with:
NSIncludesSubdomains = YES
NSTemporaryExceptionAllowsInsecureHTTPLoads = YES
NSTemporaryExceptionMinimumTLSVersion = TLSv1.2
MessageFilter Info.plist:
Same ATS settings as above
NSExtension block:
<key>NSExtension</key>
<dict>
<key>NSExtensionAttributes</key>
<dict>
<key>ILMessageFilterExtensionNetworkURL</key>
<string>https://my-api.example.com/api/sms-filter</string>
<key>ILClassificationExtensionSMSReportDestination</key>
<string>+10000000000</string>
</dict>
<key>NSExtensionPointIdentifier</key>
<string>com.apple.identitylookup.message-filter</string>
<key>NSExtensionPrincipalClass</key>
<string>$(PRODUCT_MODULE_NAME).MessageFilterExtension</string>
</dict>
📜 Entitlements
Main App Entitlements
<key>com.apple.developer.associated-domains</key>
<array>
<string>messagefilter:my-api.example.com</string>
<string>applinks:my-api.example.com</string>
</array>
<key>com.apple.developer.networking.networkextension</key>
<array>
<string>content-filter-provider</string>
</array>
<key>com.apple.security.application-groups</key>
<array>
<string>group.com.example.shared</string>
</array>
Message Filter Extension Entitlements
Identical to main app’s, scoped to the extension.
📄 AASA File (Hosted on https://my-api.example.com/.well-known/apple-app-site-association)
Serves as application/json, returns 200 OK, and is reachable on device via Safari. Logs confirm AASA is downloaded and installed successfully during TestFlight install.
{
"applinks": {
"apps": [],
"details": [
{
"appID": "TEAMID.com.example.app",
"paths": ["*"]
},
{
"appID": "TEAMID.com.example.app.MessageFilter",
"paths": ["*"]
}
]
},
"messagefilter": {
"apps": [],
"details": [
{
"appID": "TEAMID.com.example.app",
"filterType": "URL",
"domains": ["my-api.example.com"]
},
{
"appID": "TEAMID.com.example.app.MessageFilter",
"filterType": "URL",
"domains": ["my-api.example.com"]
}
]
},
"classificationreport": {
"apps": [],
"details": [
{
"appID": "TEAMID.com.example.app",
"domains": ["my-api.example.com"]
},
{
"appID": "TEAMID.com.example.MessageReporting",
"domains": ["my-api.example.com"]
}
]
}
}
❌ The Problem
When the extension launches and receives an SMS to classify, logs show:
deferQueryRequestToNetwork failed: The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.IdentityLookup.error.messagefilter error 3.)
The extension loads, network URL is available, the AASA is installed, and yet the extension is not allowed to defer to network. This occurs every time.
🧪 Other Notes
Tried rebuilding everything from scratch
Archiving to TestFlight, not running via Xcode
Clean entitlements verified using codesign -d --entitlements :-
Console logs show no issues with AASA download or validation
Any help or insights from Apple engineering or others in the community who have successfully deployed a working Message Filter Extension would be hugely appreciated.
Thanks in advance 🙏
I am still struggling to nail down the screen time between monitoring and showing it in a DeviceActivityReport. It's always off by a couple of percentage points, which results in a difference of a couple of minutes between the time shown for my total screen time in DeviceActivityReport and DeviceActivityMonitor with a threshold set for all apps/websites/categories.
In the report, I am looping through all segment (there is only 1 segement using .daily segment interval for a given day) then loop through all categories and all apps within each category and sum up all totalActivityDuration for each app. Based on avaiable documentation, that should corrolate to DeviceActivityMonitor threshold but it doesn't. Are there any differences in how these 2 places count screen time? Are there any apps/core ios services which are excluded from DeviceActivityMonitor. Would appreciate any help at all, I'm losing my mind here.
My current suspicion is that Apple Developer documentation is counted twice. i.e. this website https://developer.apple.com/documentation/deviceactivity/deviceactivitymonitor shows up in usage as an App with bundleId of apple.developer.wwdc-release and time spent there is counted twice, against this bundleId AND Safari. I don't know why it's not counted as a webdomain.
Hi Apple Dev community,
I want to ask if CallKit and CXCallDirectoryProvider (with addBlockingEntryWithNextSequentialPhoneNumber) doesn't work for 3rd party Phone apps.
Is this a known issue that CallKit doesn't work on 3rd party iOS Phone apps (like WhatsApp, etc)?
Thank you.
Currenty, I'm developing a blocking and call identity call. In iOS 18, everything works fine, I can show log to debug inside my Callkit extensions
But when my app run in iOS 26, I cant even turn on my caller id extension, I'm not able to debug because I dont see any log from my extensions.
Our VoIP app receives PushKit notifications successfully (callservicesd Delivering 1 VoIP payload appears in logs). However, the app is consistently terminated by the system when running in the background or killed state.
The crash is caused by iOS expecting a reportNewIncomingCall to CallKit, but the system reports:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException',
reason: 'Killing app because it never posted an incoming call to the system after receiving a PushKit VoIP push.'
*** Assertion failure in -[PKPushRegistry _terminateAppIfThereAreUnhandledVoIPPushes], PKPushRegistry.m:349
Key Observations:
VoIP pushes arrive and are delivered to the app.
In foreground, some methods work and CallKit UI sometimes appears.
In background/killed state, app is always terminated before CallKit UI shows.
Logs confirm the system requires CallKit to be reported immediately inside pushRegistry(_:didReceiveIncomingPushWith:for:completion:).
Steps to Reproduce:
Run the app with VoIP + CallKit integration.
Put app in background (or kill it).
Send a VoIP push.
Observe system logs and crash:
callservicesd: Delivering 1 VoIP payload(s) to application
UrgiDoctor: Apps receiving VoIP pushes must post an incoming call via CallKit...
error: Killing VoIP app because it failed to post an incoming call in time.
Expected Behavior:
On receiving a VoIP push, CallKit UI (Accept / Decline screen) should always appear.
App should not be killed if reportNewIncomingCall is called in time.
Actual Behavior:
CallKit UI never appears in background/killed state.
App is force-terminated by iOS before user can accept/decline the call.
Request:
Guidance on the correct sequence for calling reportNewIncomingCall and completionHandler() in pushRegistry.
Clarification if any changes in iOS 17/18 affect PushKit + CallKit behavior.
Best practices for ensuring CallKit UI always appears reliably after a VoIP push.
Environment:
iOS 18.5 Simulator + Device
Xcode 16.4
Using PushKit + CallKit with VoIP entitlement
I've made working Spotlight Import Extension with in macOS 15.5 (24F74). mdimport confirm it's installed, and working. The problem is related to accessing data inside document bundles (package directory)
class ImportExtension: CSImportExtension {
override func update(_ attributes: CSSearchableItemAttributeSet, forFileAt url: URL) throws {
// ERROR: The file "QuickSort.notepad" couldn't be opened because you don't have permission to view it.
let fileWrapper = try FileWrapper(url: url)
}
}
forFileAt url points to a bundle. In order to read the metadata the extension needs to load the bundle from url and access its content, however in the sandbox environment,t the url allows only access to the bundle directory itself in particular NSFileWrapper(url: url) fails with error "The file "name.extension" couldn't be opened because you don't have permission to view it.", and effectively prevent from providing useful metadata.
Is there a way to access the Document Bundle content in order to read the metadata for Spotlight?
For my app, I would like to offer the user an option to enter a value in any currency and have it converted to their 'home' currency with the correct exchange rate.
I saw that the Apple Calculator is offering that functionality and was wondering if there is a way to also get the exchange rate with out of the box tools?
I know that there are several API providers out there that offer the current exchange rate for any currency but I am looking for a solution that is free of charge.
Max
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
General
Hello everyone,
I would like to know if there is any way for an iOS app to automatically access a user’s total Screen Time (for example, daily or weekly usage) and then share this with friends so they can compare results, like in a “Screen Time battle”?
Thanks you very much for you help!
I have four apps currently deployed on the App Store. One of these apps crashes on launch when running on iOS 26, but functions as expected on iOS 18 and earlier versions. I am seeking to understand what changes in iOS 26 might be causing this issue.
When running the app in debug mode on devices with iOS 26 using Xcode 16.1, the app crashes.
The crash log references libobjc-trampolines.dylib, suggesting a potential issue with the Objective-C runtime.
Has anyone else encountered a similar issue?
AGX: AGX: agxa_device_template.hpp:1467:setupCompiler: *** FATAL: driver shader binary file not found in (null) for extension g15p!!!
D [yHZ]: added warning: [MEDIUM]: SW04: A debugger is attached to the App.
D [ProbeCallbacks]: [IXGUARD] debugger detected
objc[1461]: couldn't dlopen libobjc-trampolines.dylib: dlopen(/usr/lib/libobjc-trampolines.dylib, 0x0106): tried: '/usr/lib/system/introspection/libobjc-trampolines.dylib' (no such file, not in dyld cache), '/usr/lib/libobjc-trampolines.dylib' (no such file), '/private/preboot/Cryptexes/OS/usr/lib/libobjc-trampolines.dylib' (open() failed with errno=24), '/usr/lib/libobjc-trampolines.dylib' (no such file, not in dyld cache)
What steps can I take to resolve this crash?
Thank you for your assistance.
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
General
I have prepared a NSSpellServer spelling and grammar checker for Slovenian proofing in macOS. My proofing service gets used when I explicitly set keyboard spelling language to "Slovenian (Besana)" (my proofing tool).
When I set keyboard language to Automatic by Language, system does the language detection. Since it has limited support for Slovenian language, it doesn't recognize the text as Slovenian and never asks my proofing service to check the spelling. It does consult my proofing service for spelling suggestions and when it does, I see the language parameter there is set to anything but Slovenian.
Is it possible to install own language detector to macOS? Or, place some language dictionary files somewhere, the system could use to extend language detection to new languages?
Hallo all,
I did a test integration of MetricKit into one of our apps...I'am on macOS Ventura 13.3.1 (a). The app is not distributed via the App Store.
I subscribed to the MXMetricManager and implemented the didReceiveDiagnosticPayloads function.
So far everything seems to work, when I use in Xcode: Debug -> Simulate MetricKit Payload I get a callback and the payload.
So I did some further testing. When I build the app debug version with a test crash and then run the Debug Version (without Xcode) and let it crash the next time I start the app I get a callback to didReceiveDiagnosticPayloads with all the information about the crash.
But I'am not able to get a hang report. I tested it by adding a sleep (60) and adding some intensive computation work on the main thread so that it is busy for several seconds, I get no hang reports :-(
I'am using the Debug version and run it without Xcode.
Are hang reports expected to be reported immediately? I also get after 24 hours no hang reports.
Can someone help me?
Thanks and have a nice day!